POMFRET — Ten years after it went online, Pomfret’s municipal website is poised to be ravamped, a top-to-bottom upgrade that officials say will engage residents while providing timely town information.

First Selectwoman Maureen Nicholson said the new website will go live Friday and will be able to be accessed at www.pomfretct.gov. She said the new site will allow boards and commissions to post minutes and agendas themselves without having to go through a third-party provider.

“And with that we will be able to offer a subscription service in which residents can sign up and get e-mail alerts sent to them updating them whenever new agendas and minutes are posted,” she said. “There will also be a banner page where we can add breaking news, like snow storm, power outage and other reports. And that information can be texted to interested residents.”

The website overhaul, by Massachusetts-based Virtual Towns and Schools, cost $4,200 and has been a work in progress for the last three months. Nicholson said the easier-to-navigate site replaces a “stagnant page” that is well past its prime.

“There will be sections for photo albums, municipal forms for downloading and a more organized set-up,” she said. “It’s light years ahead of what we have now. It’s about 95 percent done now and we’re still migrating some information from the old site. I really see this site as a role-model for other towns.”

A testing version of the new site replaces the existing blue-on-blue web page with a green and white color scheme. On one side of the home page, browsers can click on several municipal-focused options including tax payments, GIS mapping and budgets. On the other side, an interactive calendar sits above a weather widget. The middle section is set aside for “Town News.”

Resident Susan LaRose, a member of the town’s Senior Advocacy Commission, said she’s anxious to see the new site get up-and-running.

“It’ll give us that ability to post things ourselves without waiting, something that will provide people with more timely information,” she said. “It’s about keeping up with the times.”